Posted in 220, Agendas, Board of Education, School Districts on January 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The Barrington District 220 Board of Education meets this evening at 7:00 PM at the Early Learning Center located at 40 East Dundee Rd. A copy of their agenda can be viewed here.
Tonight’s meeting can be viewed via live video streaming by clicking here. The video recording from the last meeting on December 15th can be viewed here.
Posted in Agendas, Barrington Hills Park District, BH Polo Club, Ethics, FRVPC, OMA, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Taxes on January 11, 2016| 1 Comment »
The Barrington Hills Park District Board of Commissioners meets this evening at 7:00 PM at the district Riding Center located at 361 Bateman Road. There are two agendas posted to the district website to be covered tonight.
The first is a public hearing notice to hear comments from taxpayers regarding a “Combined Budget & Appropriations Ordinance.” Unfortunately, a copy of the proposed ordinance is not available via the website for residents to review in advance of the meeting to prepare their remarks. We assume copies will be made available at the meeting.
A copy of the public hearing agenda can be viewed here.
The commissioners will then hold their regularly scheduled monthly meeting to discuss other district business. A copy of that agenda can be viewed here.
Posted in Algonquin Rd, County, Kane, Land Use, Longmeadow Parkway, Politics, Taxes, Western Bypass on January 9, 2016| 3 Comments »
An environmental group hopes a call to action asking people to send letters to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opposing the proposed Longmeadow Parkway Fox River Bridge Corridor can sway the agency from granting Kane County permits for the project.
Friends of the Fox is asking for letters of opposition to Kane County Department of Transportation’s proposed four lane, 5.6 mile corridor stretching from Huntley and Boyer roads on the west side of the Fox River to Bolz Road, off Route 25 on the east side of the river.
Read more here.
Posted in Audio Recordings, Taxes, Village Board on January 7, 2016| 2 Comments »
Recordings from the special Village Board meeting held on December 22nd to approve an amended levy ordinance are available for review on the Village website.
A levy amount of $6,187.485 was approved by four board members present for the meeting. This compares to a $6,452,005 levy for the prior year and represents a reduction of $264,520 or approximately 4.1%.
The entire meeting lasted less than five minutes. To access the menu of edited audio recordings by agenda topic, click here.
A copy of the approved levy ordinance can be viewed and downloaded here.
Posted in Real Estate, Topics Of Interest on January 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »
What does $1 million buy these days? It depends on where you’re looking. Last month for that price, buyers picked up a one-bedroom condo at the Trump Tower downtown, while 41 miles northwest in Barrington Hills, the same amount bought a six-bedroom house on 4.2 acres.
Read more of the Crain’s real estate article here.
Posted in Accidents, Crime, Police Reports, Public Safety, VBHPD on January 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »
A copy of the consolidated monthly Village police activity report for November can be viewed and downloaded here.
Posted in Accidents, BCFPD, Cook, County, FPDCC, VBHPD on January 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Nobody was injured after a crash that landed a vehicle in a frozen pond in Barrington early Saturday morning, fire officials said.
Firefighters were dispatched a little after midnight to the area of Algonquin and Palatine roads, where a vehicle was found in a pond about 50 yards from the shore, according to a news release from Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District.
Read more here.
Posted in OP/Ed on January 1, 2016| Leave a Comment »
We’d like to express our gratitude to our readers and subscribers for their contributions to making 2015 another successful year as depicted in the graph of site visits per year (pictured above) to The Observer since inception in 2009.
Views to the “top ten” articles of 2015 published recently represent a small percentage for the year. This confirms residents are interested in all aspects of Village news and not just some political controversies that have plagued us for too long, and we believe this is a positive for our community.
We’d like to wish each and everyone a very Happy New Year!
-The Observer
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